From: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Ewan D . Milne" <emilne@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] block: avoid to drop & re-add partitions if partitions aren't changed
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 11:07:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210217030714.GB259250@T590> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210216084430.GA23694@lst.de>
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:44:30AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 12:03:41PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> I think this is a fundamentally bad idea. We should not keep the
> parsed partition state around forever just to work around some buggy
> user space software.
What is the bug in userspace software?
Do you think it is correct for ioctl(BLKRRPART) to always drop/re-add
partition device node?
--
Ming
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-17 3:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-05 2:17 [PATCH 0/2] block: avoid to drop & re-add partitions if partitions aren't changed Ming Lei
2021-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] block: move partitions check code into single helper Ming Lei
2021-02-05 2:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] block: avoid to drop & re-add partitions if partitions aren't changed Ming Lei
2021-02-05 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-05 7:30 ` Ming Lei
2021-02-15 4:03 ` [PATCH 0/2] " Ming Lei
2021-02-16 8:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-17 3:07 ` Ming Lei [this message]
2021-02-17 7:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2021-02-18 7:57 ` Ming Lei
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